So ... what were the B-29 firebomb raids? A picnic? You think the Japanese people never saw the resource shortages caused by our VERY effective submarine force? That the people were unaware of soldiers not coming home, of ships leaving and not returning?
Try again.
The Japanese government systematically lied to the people about the progress of the war, but did not, could not, hide from them its existence or its effects.
Right.
Has anyone seen “Grave of the Fireflies”, it is very sad
I was making a sarcastic reference to the PC crowd who say the U.S. was wrong to use atomic weapons on Japan. This has been picked up Japan-wide to make them the victims of American “racism” in our dropping the bombs.
History books in Japan make scant reference to the mass atrocities they committed in China and Korea, and for which a formal apology has yet to be made.
What Japanese knew or felt in 1945 was very different from today’s Japan where they float candles down the river through Hiroshima every August 6th and say to America, “you did this to us.”
Indeed in the aftermath of the battle of Midway there was a huge cover up effort by the Japanese authorities to keep the news from the public. But it was hard to hide that a large swath or two of Tokyo was in flames.